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Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse (seconds per site for bot detection and additional "are you human" clicks even without VPNs), now they are
by glimshe 11mo ago
Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse (seconds per site for bot detection and additional "are you human" clicks even without VPNs), now they are bringing the entire Internet down. They don't deserve the position they currently have.
- wrobelda 11mo agoYou make it sound like the DDoS and Bots are their fault.
- glimshe 11mo agoThey make gazillions. I'm sure they can do better than that. How many awful things in tech can be rationalized away by "sorry, but this is for you/our protection"?
- gilrain 11mo ago> Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse No, I did (metaphorically, for the websites I control). And I did it because otherwise those sites are fully offline or unusable thanks to the modern floods of unfilterable scrapers. Months of piecemeal mitigations, but Attack Mode is the only thing that worked. Blame the LLM gold rush and the many, many software engineers with no ethics and zero qualms about racing to find the bottom of the Internet.
- The_President 11mo agoThe whole “not a bot” prompt every three hours seems like it has potential to get out of the way more often.